08 Flashcards
wide awake
Tamamen uyanık
raisins
Kuru üzüm
“Biraz kuru üzüm ister misin? - Do you want some raisins?”
Do the math
“diesel prices in my area are approximately 7% more than regular gas, but the mileage is over 20% greater—do the math”
Parçaları bir araya getirmek
Hesap yapmak
= make a calculation or come to a conclusion based on the relevant facts and figures, typically with the implication that the result is or should be obvious.
“diesel prices in my area are approximately 7% more than regular gas, but the mileage is over 20% greater—do the math”
Cranky
Huysuz
Kötü gününde olan
= NORTH AMERİCAN
bad-tempered; irritable.
“he was cranky after eight hours of working”
= İNFORMAL•BRİTİSH
eccentric or strange.
“a cranky scheme to pipe ground-level ozone into the stratosphere”
gloat
= to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else’s failure or bad luck:
= gloat over/about - “She’s continually gloating over/about her new job.”
“I know I shouldn’t gloat, but it really serves him right.”
= gloat at - His enemies were quick to gloat at his humiliation.
= dwell on one’s own success or another’s misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.
“his enemies gloated over his death”
get back on track
Normale dönmek
Ergo
“she was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect”
Yani, dolayısıyla
= therefore.
“she was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect”
Hillbilly
Gundi
Köylü
Kıro
an unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians.
2.
old-fashioned term for country music.
“he played sweet hillbilly guitar”
Are we there yet?
Daha gelmedik mi?
Do your own thing
Kafana göre takıl
I over you
Seni unuttum
Beat someone to it
“He got the story printed quickly, in case someone beat him to it.”
“We’re going make an offer on Bob’s house and we’re hoping that no one else has beaten us to it.”
Birinden önce davranmak
= to do something before someone else does it:
“I was just going to clean the kitchen, but you beat me to it.”
= succeed in doing something or getting somewhere before someone else.
“you’d better get a move on or they’ll beat you to it”
Jenny
“A jenny could spin from six to twenty-four times more yarn than a hand spinner.”
Çıkrık
sanctimonious
Everyone finds me annoying. When people become aware of the fact that I am reading “The Power Broker,” they immediately think I am a sanctimonious jerk, regardless of whether I even mention “The Power Broker.”
Ahlaklılık taslayan
Sahte sofu
= making a show of being morally superior to other people.
“what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?”
one-horse town
“And in many of the one-horse towns that hosted Futures events, there weren’t any sights to see.”
by Conor Niland
A small and unimportant place, as in “Ours was just a one-horse town until the nuclear plant was built .” This expression, first recorded in 1857, presumably alluded to a town so small that a single horse would suffice for its transportation needs.
stay off one’s feet
“You need to conserve energy, and I was obsessed with recovering by staying off my feet.:
by Conor Niland
= (deyim) Ayakta kalmamak, dinlenmek
go out of one’s way
“Everyone is in competition with one another and on the lookout for a weakness in everybody else, and players never go out of their way to make the life of a lone traveller any easier.”
By Conor Niland
= make a special effort to do something.
“Mrs Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara”
= make a fuss about. make an effort. put oneself out. take pains
Blank somebody
“I was as bad as the other players when it came to not reaching out. Once you get burned by a player blanking you, you don’t try again. The ego is too precious.”
By Conor Niland
Görmezden gelmek
= to ignore somebody completely.
“I saw her on the bus this morning, but she totally blanked me.”
= showing no understanding or no emotion in the expression on your face:
“a blank stare/expression”
“blank incomprehension”
strut
Once you get burned by a player blanking you, you don’t try again. The ego is too precious. Best to strut on by.
By Conor Niland
Kasıla kasıla yürümek
= to walk in a proud way trying to look important:
“The boys strutted around trying to get the attention of a group of girls who were nearby.”
Bir oyuncunun sizi boşlamasıyla bir kez yandınız mı, bir daha denemezsiniz. Ego çok değerlidir. En iyisi kasıla kasıla geçmektir.
wimp
“Don’t be a wimp”
pısırık
= a weak and cowardly or unadventurous person.
= a person who is not strong, brave, or confident:
“I’m afraid I’m a wimp when it comes to climbing up ladders.”
I’m Switzerland
Ben tarafsızım
buy the farm
“If you crash at 60 mph, the odds are you’ll buy the farm.”
Ölmek
rehash
“Rehashing your problems with friends can turn into a bad habit - Although ‘co-rumination’ bolsters relationships in some ways, it also distracts from other, better coping methods”
by Shayla Love
: to talk over or discuss again
manifestation
Orijinal metinde “manifestation” (= tezahür, tecelli vs.) “Manifesto” ve “manifestation” çok farklı şeylerdir.
